The Big Picture
- Disney’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny faced challenges at the box office, overshadowed by the success of Barbie and Oppenheimer.
- Dial of Destiny has generated $167 million in domestic revenue and $188 million internationally, resulting in a global total of $355 million after a month in theaters.
- The movie’s underperformance can be attributed to losing theaters to other blockbuster films and receiving a lower Rotten Tomatoes score compared to the disliked fourth Indiana Jones movie.
The box office was dominated by the tremendous success of Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie and Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer, leaving casualties in their wake. While Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One suffered the most, Disney’s struggling Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was overshadowed by what is now referred to as the “Barbenheimer” event. However, despite this, the big-budget action-adventure film reached a significant milestone at the box office, although it’s unlikely that anyone at the studio is celebrating.
After being in theaters for a month, the film has earned $167 million in domestic box office revenue and an additional $188 million from international markets, resulting in a total of $355 million worldwide. The movie had a weak opening and has since lost more than half of its domestic theaters, with most of them being allocated to Dead Reckoning Part One, followed by Barbie and Oppenheimer.
As a result, Dial of Destiny only managed to earn $3 million at the domestic box office this weekend, while Barbie and Oppenheimer raked in a combined total of nearly $150 million. The fifth installment in the long-running Indiana Jones franchise had a lackluster debut with $60 million at the end of June, and its performance was significantly affected by the release of Dead Reckoning Part One a week later. Both movies have fallen short of expectations to varying degrees, which is especially disappointing considering their massive budgets of $300 million.